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In the Forum: Horn-Loaded Speakers
In the Thread: Short midbass horns
Post Subject: It is all that counts...Posted by Romy the Cat on: 5/18/2019
Noviygera, yes to a degree a short midbass horns is not really a horn but some sort of waveguide or bounce-horn. A horn described, if to drop all crap out, by volume of LF equalization (boost) the horn makes. A larger trout to mouth ratio the larger LF gain, different profiles yield different LF gains and many other factors and it is not necessarily that the larger LF gain is better. I personally call an enclosure a horn if you have more than 6dB gain at mouth rate frequency. Do the acoustic enclosure that have less then 6dB gain and not qualified by my standards as “horn” have right to exist? If cause they are. It is not about the topology per se but HOW you use the topology. 
 
Now about my comment regarding the "bass horns are dangers and it is better do not do it if they are not done properly”. You understand that “dangers” is an allegory that describes a punitive aspect of improper implementation projected to amount of efforts. Do, turn wood, buy drivers, make the thing happen but if you do it wrongly then you have a result that is much easier to get out of direct radiators. Is it prohibitive direction to go it audio? It looks like we in high-end audio accustomed to justify any of our ordinary stupidity by our extraordinary desires...  
 
Sorry, for my typical philosophical soliloquy. So, what is wrong with short midbass horn? Try it, answer to yourself and then see if you can live with the answer projected to the very specific listening objectives you have. If you can make the sound you need with short horn or longhorns or whatever topology you use …  it all what counts….

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